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In today's editorial, Eirik Eng of Trolltech responds to Joseph Carter's comments on KDE and Debian with a discussion of the original intent of the QPL, an explanation of how Trolltech views the current situation, and a preview of the future of the license. [Comments are disabled]
About: Gaby is a small personal database manager using GTK+ and GNOME (if available) for its GUI. It was designed to provide straight-forward access to the types of databases a casual user would normally use, while keeping the ability to easily create databases for other needs. It was designed with extensibility in mind and relies heavily on plug-ins. Changes: Improved error detection and reporting, and fixes for import/export functions and several configure and makefile issues.
About: lispreader is a small library for reading expressions in Lisp syntax. It provides a framework for reading configuration files. To simplify interpretation of the read data, lispreader also provides functions for simple matching of expressions against patterns. Changes: Handling of Lisp style comments and user-defined streams.
About: DVDdb is a web based movie database that allows multiple users to track ownership and loans of movies amongst friends. Changes: A fix for a serious display bug in the main DVD list which was introduced in version 0.2.
About: Qbanner is a Perl+MySQL ad server (GIF, JPEG, PNG ads) with graphical, tabular stats and cache busting. Changes: Initial freshmeat announcement.
About: Foundation is a real-time multi-player space conquest game. OpenGL hardware support is recommended. Goals include researching new technology, colonizing distant planets, and fighting intense 3D fleet battles for survival. Changes: Approching playability, with major changes to fleetview, new high-level network code, a new keypad control, ability to build items (and the UI is updated to display them), and easier access to the commandline ("t").
About: xplain2sql converts files from Xplain to SQL. It supports a very large subset of Xplain, and it can convert from Xplain to Microsoft SQL Server, DB/2, Inprise InterBase, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL 5, SQLite 3 or ANSI-92 SQL. It can also generate an XML description of the generated SQL. This XML description can be used to create low-level middle-tier code. Example stylesheets for Eiffel/ECLI and Delphi/ADO are included. The C source code release should compile on any platform with an ANSI C compiler. There are binary releases for FreeBSD, BeOS, Linux, Solaris x86, and Windows 2000. Changes: DB/2 support, fixes for various wrong SQL generation bugs (including an import one when using extends), a new column rename operator `as', support for Xplain per operator in get statements (i.e., you can sort your results now), requirement of the Formatter library to compile, and compile support with SmallEiffel and VisualEiffel.
About: Palmdoc, inspired by javadoc, is a Perl program intended to help Palm programmers document their projects. It takes a projectname as input and walks along the project files, generating an HTML document from the code and the comments. While palmdoc has some strict rules, it helps the programmer maintain a clear document-structure and minimizes the effort of having to write seperate documentation for each project. Changes: Initial freshmeat announcement.
About: Secure FTP is a client package that allows for a secure connection to be made to an FTP daemon via SSL. Changes: Initial public release.
About: MP3Organizer is designed to organize your MP3 collection. It gets song information from the MP3 files and their ID3 tags or filenames and stores it in a MySQL database. You can search for files by artist, title, album, etc., and create playlists. Changes: This release adds files that were missing in the tar archive of 0.1alpha2.
About: OSSP mm is a 2-layer abstraction library which simplifies the usage of shared memory between related processed under Unix platforms. It both hides all platform dependent implementation details (allocation, locking, etc.) when dealing with shared memory segments and provides a high-level malloc-style API for a convenient way to work with data-structures inside those shared memory segments. Changes: Various cleanups and bugfixes.
About: GNU Portable Threads (Pth) is a very portable POSIX/ANSI-C based library for Unix platforms providing non-preemptive priority-based scheduling for multiple threads of execution ("multithreading") inside server applications. All threads run in the same address space, but each thread has its own individual program-counter, run-time stack, signal mask and errno variable. The scheduling is done in a cooperative way, i.e. the threads are dispatched based on priority and pending events. The event facility allows threads to wait until various types of events occur, including pending I/O on filedescriptors, elapsed timers, pending I/O on message ports, thread and process termination, and even customized callback functions. Changes: This is the second alpha version of the forthcoming GNU Pth 1.4 series. It provides many bugfixes and cleanups plus a few new features.
About: pngcrush is an excellent batch-mode compression utility for PNG images. Depending on the application that created the original PNGs, it can improve the file size anywhere from a few percent to 40% or more (completely losslessly). The utility also allows specified PNG chunks (e.g. text comments) to be inserted or deleted, and it can fix incorrect gamma info written by Photoshop 5.0 as well as the erroneous iCCP chunk written by Photoshop 5.5. Changes: This release removes the erroneous iCCP chunk now being written by Photoshop 5.5 and replaces it with an sRGB chunk if appropriate. It adds a color counting function (disabled by default) that will be used in a future version to build or rebuild the palette. The legal notice has been revised to disclaim all UCITA-mandated warranties.
About: GNU shtool is a compilation of small but very stable and portable shell scripts into a single shell tool. All ingredients were in successful use over many years in various free software projects. The compiled shtool program is intended to be used inside the source tree of free software packages. There it can overtake various (usually non-portable) tasks related to the building and installation of an free software package. Changes: This release adds a new -r/--recreate option for simple upgrading of existing shtool scripts, a rewritten "shtool version" command, better "shtool path -m perl" magic handling, an enhanced "shtool install" command, a bugfixed "shtool mkdir" command, etc.
About: The Network Utilities Module for Webmin features tools like ping, traceroute, nslookup, nmap, whois, dig and an IP subnet calculator. Changes: A Chinese translation and small fixes.
About: The NetSaint Configuration Webmin Module gives an easy-to-use administration interface for the NetSaint CGI Monitor. It supports all configuration directives of NetSaint. This module is part of the LinuxMonitor Project. Changes: Small bugfixes.
About: Cannon Smash is a 3D table-tennis game. This game represents various strategies of tabletennis on the computer. Changes: Improved performance in multiplayer mode. Some bug fixes.
About: Xrsf is a "really simple fractal-generator" with zoom function and fullscreen mode. Currently it displays the Mandelbrot set. Changes: Initial freshmeat announcement
About: Flashcards are a nice way to prepare for competitive exams like GRE, SAT etc. This program generates Postscript files which you can cut into pieces to create flashcards. Changes: Initial Freshmeat Announcement
About: gnome seti_applet displays the status of any running seti@home process. It shows the best spike, best gaussian, number of units completed, percentage complete of the current unit, and the total CPU time used thus far. Seti client can be started and stopped from the applet menus, and can be configured to auto-start on panel startup. Changes: Now performs as expected within Gnome 1.2, i.e. pays attention to the panel sizes and resizes itself appropriately. Updated display within the applet to use GnomeCanvas rather than gtk widgets. Added graphical representation of best gaussian, best spike.
About: GOOPS is the object-oriented extension to Guile. Its implementation is derived from STk and Tiny-Clos. It is very close in spirit to CLOS (the Common Lisp Object System) but is adapted for the Scheme language. While GOOPS is not compatible with any of these systems, GOOPS contains a compatibility module which allows for execution of STKlos programs. Briefly stated, the GOOPS extension gives the user a full object oriented system with multiple inheritance and generic functions with multi-method dispatch. Furthermore, the implementation relies on a true meta object protocol, in the spirit of the one defined for CLOS. Changes: This is a bug fix release which corrects a couple of serious bugs in GOOPS 0.1.8. (The version number is intended to show that GOOPS 1.0 is approaching.)
About: Xscorch is a clone of the classic DOS game "Scorched Earth". The basic goal is to annihilate enemy tanks using overpowered guns. Players can purchase weapons and accessories to defend their tank, and they can attack enemy tanks by adjusting the angle of the tank's turret and the firing power. Xscorch supports gameplay with humans and computer AIs, and network gameplay is in development. Changes: This release fixes a segfault on startup, and improves installation and portability of xscorch. Also, tank profiles are implemented, which will allow custom tank icons in future releases.
About: Xoscope (or oscope) is a digital oscilloscope using input from a sound card or EsounD and/or a ProbeScope/osziFOX. Its features include 8 simultaneous signal displays, 1 us/div to 2 s/div time scale, built-in and external math functions including inverse, sum, diff, avg, xy, and FFT, 23 memory buffers, 5 automatic measurements, and file save/load. Changes: Two new features: logic analyzer display mode and manually positioned measurement cursors
About: Glimmer is an all-purpose programmer's editor for Linux. Features include revert, find/replace, goto line, syntax highlighting, multiple-level undo/redo, tear-away windows, quick access popup menu, auto-indenting, Python scripting support, and many other standard editor features. Changes: Now usable full screen on 1024x768. Approximately 25% speed increase. All the horizontal scrolling bugs are now worked out. Other minor fixes.
About: The dnsutl package is a collection tools to make administering DNS easier. Changes: Now handles IN LOC records.
About: The purpose of zdisk is to have a kernel of your choice and a rescue system on one floppy or cdrom disk. Zdisk copies a kernel of your choice to a floppy and puts a rescue system on the same floppy, creating a boot/rescue floppy. The kernel can't be more than 1070Kb in size. Ramf-117.exe at the same site has a similar rescue system, except it comes with a IDE kernel. Changes: Update of some software, ability to create a bootable cdrom rescue system.
About: loco is a Perl script which gives the messages file (usually /var/log/messages) some color, so the output is easier to read. It uses a Perl module called Term::ANSIColor to produce the colors. The Perl script is very readable and customizable. Changes: Initial freshmeat announcement
About: dumpmpeg is a simple program that allows you to dump frames from mpeg movies. Future features may include dumping of the audio as well. dumpmpeg uses Loki's SMPEG library for decoding. Changes: First release.
About: RealPlayer plays streaming audio and video over the Internet in real-time. It plays RealAudio, RealVideo, MP3, 3GPP Video, Flash, SMIL 2.0, JPEG, GIF, PNG, RealPix, RealText, Ogg Vorbis, and Ogg Theora. It is available for Windows, Macintosh, Pocket PC, Nokia 9200 Series, Nokia 7650, Palm OS 5-based handhelds, Linux, Solaris, and many Unix variants. Changes: New platforms added: Unix ports provided are now: Linux/i386, Solaris, Linux/Alpha, Linux/PPC, Linux/Sparc, AIX, Irix
About: The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) implements an Internet name server for Unix operating systems. The BIND consists of a server (or `daemon') called `named' and a resolver library. A name server is a network service that enables clients to name resources or objects and share this information with other objects in the network. Changes: A new lightweight resolver library and associated resolver daemon (which should still be considered experimental), stable and complete server-side support for DNSSEC secured zones with the exception of the handling of wildcard records, new default values for 'transfer-format' and 'listen-on-v6' options, linking of lwresd to named, use of the DNSSEC key generation and signing tools to generate randomness from keyboard input on systems that lack /dev/random, addition of a plain text version of the Administrator Reference Manual, and various bugfixes and cleanups.
About: Irssi is a modular, terminal-based IRC client with Perl scripting. Changes: You can now specify what IRC server to send the message with /MSG -server_tag. Tab-completion was rewritten, you can now complete commands, file names, settings and #channel names. /LAST -away checks only lines that came after last /AWAY. Various other features and bugfixes.
About: nuweb is a lightweight, fast Literate Programming tool that lets you write a document describing your software and extract the code for your software from that document. Changes: Initial freshmeat announcement
About: PHP is a widely-used Open Source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. Its syntax draws upon C, Java, and Perl, and is easy to learn. PHP runs on many different platforms and can be used as a standalone executable or as a module under a variety of Web servers. It has excellent support for databases, XML, LDAP, IMAP, Java, various Internet protocols, and general data manipulation, and is extensible via its powerful API. It is actively developed and supported by a talented and energetic international team. Numerous Open Source and commercial PHP-based application packages are available. Changes: Fixes for two bugs that were discovered in PHP 4.0.1 that prevent error_reporting() and readdir() from working properly.
About: GObject Builder (GOB) is a simple preprocessor for easily creating GObjects (glib objects). It reads a class description file with inline C code and produces .c and .h object files for you. It allows you to easily use most of the features of the GObject system and avoids typos by reducing the amount of code needed. In general, the amount of code is about the same as for OO languages such as Java or C++, but you still have to only use C and you get all the power of the GObject system. Changes: Fixes for "const" handling, use of chunks for new object allocation, a new __GOB_FUNCTION__ define for each function, new --always-private-struct option, stringlink strdups on get, and minor fixes.
About: phpGroupWare (formerly known as webdistro) is a multi-user groupware suite written in PHP. Its provides a Web-based calendar, todo-list, addressbook, email, news headlines, and a file manager. The calendar supports repeating events. The email system supports inline graphics and file attachments. The system as a whole supports user preferences, themes, user permissions, multi-language support, an advanced API, and user groups. Changes: A pre-alpha of the new trouble ticket system, a number of fixes for file attachments, better Windows support, and a new directory struture for better security.
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